Kim - What? How?

Lat.num , an , sometimes translatable by " whether? " but oftener serving only like a note of interrogation to mark a question (e.g.kiṃ vyādhā vane 'smin saṃcaranti , " do hunters roam about in this wood? " In an interrogation the verb , if uncompounded with a preposition , generally retains its accent after kimPa1n2. 8-1 , 44) . To this sense may be referred the kim expressing inferiority , deficiency , &c at the beginning of compounds (e.g.kiṃ-rājan , what sort of king? i.e. a bad king Pa1n2. 2-1 , 64 ; v , 4 , 70)